In Memory Of John F. Kennedy

R.I.P. JFK. Was active-duty U.S. Air Force at the time. Went on full alert (again) so soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Always thought that was less than a coincidence.
 

Gosh this brings back memories for me.
I was in hospital in a Stryker bed having just had a spinal fusion when suddenly one of the nurses who was
attending to me came into the room and just burst into tears. I thought at first something had gone awfully wrong with me but she just came to me and told me the sad news about the U.S.President. Then the other nurse who helped came in and she too was tears. Both of them sat with me and we all cried together.

I just remember through my pain, being so horribly shocked and saddened and cried along with them on and off for the rest of the day as the news came in. It was just like a bad dream to me but reality set in when we got the final news on radio and TV.
The sadness hung over the hospital like pall for a few days.

R.I.P.. President Kennedy
 

I was at choir practice that Friday afternoon when one of the sisters came up to the loft to tell us that President Kennedy had been assassinated. I'll never forget it or how I felt when I heard the news. We all immediately knelt down and prayed.
 
I started watching the Bob Dylan: No Direction Home documentary. It's over three hours and I just watched Part 1, which mainly takes place in the early '60s. They talk a bit about Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis... nothing yet about his assassination.

That was a fascinating period. A lot of people wanted to be the next great poet or folk singer.
 
Manatee said:
In our house we were never Kennedy fans. I was at work and someone came in and told us that he had been shot. I thought that it is a very long time since a president was assassinated. We all continued working.
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I've never been a Kennedy fan, either. It all depends on how much you know about them.
 
Lewkat said:
Fan of Kennedy's or not, it was shocking that in this day and age, something of that magnitude would happen. Of course, measured to today's headlines, anything is possible, since everyday massacres seem to be commonplace.

So, is the slaying of our president going to shock us so much anymore?
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Well, at least we learned our lesson about a president riding in an open-top convertible - as stupid as can be.
 
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My all time favorite president. I have often wondered what this country would have been like if both John & Robert (Bobby) had lived. A hell of a lot better. There probably would have never been a Nixon Presidency since Robert Kennedy was leading in the polls. These are the lyrics to the Byrds song, He Was A Friend of Mine:

https://genius.com/The-byrds-he-was-a-friend-of-mine-lyrics
 
I had planned to watch my favorite soap and fold diapers while I watched. Walter Cronkite broke into the planned program to announce the president had been shot in Dallas, then a short time later he said that president Kennedy was dead. The world went into mourning that day.
 
Lewkat said:
Fan of Kennedy's or not, it was shocking that in this day and age, something of that magnitude would happen. Of course, measured to today's headlines, anything is possible, since everyday massacres seem to be commonplace.

So, is the slaying of our president going to shock us so much anymore?
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I'm no longer shocked but when I think of it I get very sad. :cry:
 
Revisiting this thread I'm getting teary eyed thinking of the day I saw the breaking news that he had been killed. There are JFK documentaries on several of the streaming platforms I subscribe to, including one on Paramount+ titled, JFK: What The Doctors Saw.
 
The Black Watch piper who played at Kennedy's funeral
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The Black Watch event was said to be the last time the president spent a happy day with his children

"Just days before US President John F Kennedy was assassinated, the pipes and drums of Scotland's Black Watch regiment performed on the White House lawn."

"It was such a special memory for his widow Jackie that she invited nine members of the band to take part in his state funeral procession through Washington DC."

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Bruce Cowie said it was only later that he realised how historic it was

"A charity performance on the White House lawn was the highlight of a three-month tour of the United States by the military band of the Black Watch. Bruce Cowie, who was just 24 at the time, remembers that it was "good fun" but he says: "We all did our traditional moaning because it was our day off."

"Mr Cowie says that President Kennedy did not join the band after the performance when they drank Scotch in the White House."

"However, there was a surprise for them as they left."

"Mr Cowie says: "We got on the bus and just before we hit the gate the bus stopped, the door opened and on came President Kennedy."

""He apologized for not getting in to talk to us, which he had hoped to."

"'Duties of state', that was his words. And he came round and he shook hands with everybody on the bus. That made our day."

"The event on the south lawn of the White House was on 13 November 1963. Nine days later the president was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. His death shook the world."
 
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If you're wanting to see this documentary and viewing in different places.

"JFK Assassination: What Happened in Trauma Room One"

It's advertised as being on Paramount+ but only in USA.

To view it in the UK, you need to have access to My5 channel. That is where you'll find it. Unless you have an international VPN.

This information hopefully will give you the choice to see and hear the conclusions of President Kennedy real autopsy results in both places. Parkland Hospital in Dallas, TX and Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, DC.
 
I was 16 when Kennedy was elected. For me, Ike was an old geezer, who kept having heart attacks. Mame looked like my grandmother in a Kmart dress. Plus they wanted to live an exciting life on a farm.
JFK and Jackie were sophisticated, young, and vigorous.
Dallas is still too painful for me.
 

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